This structure in Alisa Golden's book interested me -
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As I cut the doors, I wondered what the story would be. Coming to the bit of paper at the end of the tunnel, I found myself drawing a window. And panels on the doors. And then a house-plan of the doors and window - the corridor - suddenly it was about this long, dark corridor. I wrote the story, doodled a bit to 'picture' the corridor, and then decided I didn't want the plan in the book - so must re-do it. What emerged from the re-writing of the story was a nice clean version -
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A corridor is a kind of journey line - it's defined variously as giving access to apartments, a covered passageway encircling a place, a strip of land connecting two countries ... and there's a corridor in many railway carriages.
This "corridor story" fits in with my project, sort of. (I'd done something similar at some point in the foundation course, working towards a sculpture idea; it probably comes from some deep dark place...) How to develop it? In a different format, first of all - concertina or codex, with doors pictured on or cut into the pages, with darkness behind them no doubt. I can imagine using gloomy photographs. An excuse to return to Peter Zumthor's pavilion at the Serpentine, which has a covered passageway running around the centre ... perhaps it was the photos I took there a while back that stirred the can of worms that became the little story and little book.
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HI Margaret
ReplyDeleteare you familiar with this book maker?
YouTube - KQED Spark - Julie Chen
You might enjoy her take on books.